Old Gold Garage Yamaha XT500

Dan Collins picked an odd duck for his last project. It's pretty easy to build a good looking panhead. It's a slightly different ordeal to take a homely old dirt bike and turn it into something neat. Dan pulled it off though, the Scarab is unique machine that looks like it'd be a blast to ride.

Thanks: John Glaspie (lettering, gold leaf) Biltwell, Lowbrow Customs, Brian Forbes who helped with the rear wheel assembly and swingarm and paint, and The Polishing Shop in Oxnard for the Ceramic Coating and powdercoating and Williams Machine in Ventura for machining the engine parts.

Very nice, Details details details. Dan how about a how-to on the braided wire and srtring loom deal. I assume this is a hot rod trick. I love the look.
You are the king of the day today 1 bike featured here on Chop Cult and a pencil drawing of you and the Velvet Hammer all over the interweb! Rock on! Tim

Cool bike. As a person that has messed up the ceramic coating on my pipes without even messing around very much, I have to wonder why anyone would ceramic coat anything besides pipes. The stuff on mine holds up to the heat great, but mechanically damages easily and doesn't allow for spot touch up like paint or powder.